On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 17:10 -0800, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > People with MBAs from far better schools than mine, who actually do > practice management (I forgot most of mine already) assure me that Maslow's > hierarchy is a throwback to the 50s, debunked / replaced by better theories > many times over etc.
sure, in the details, but the basic principle that people usually tend to meet basic needs before they meet less basic ones, and that the basic->less basic ordering is generally similar for all people, is reasonable. there's even evidence from evolutionary biology for this - e.g. starvation leads to a longer life as the body redirects the limited available energy to the more basic needs of survival from the less basic needs of reproduction. oh, what thread creep. welcome to silk.
